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  2. Course (navigation) - Wikipedia

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    The course is to be distinguished from the heading, which is the direction where the watercraft's bow or the aircraft's nose is pointed. [1] [2] [3] [page needed] The path that a vessel follows is called a track or, in the case of aircraft, ground track (also known as course made good or course over the ground). [1] The intended track is a route.

  3. Heading (navigation) - Wikipedia

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    True course is 120°, the Variation is 5° West, and the Deviation is 1° West. T: 120° V: +5° M: 125° D: +1° C: 126° Therefore, to achieve a true course of 120°, one should follow a compass heading of 126°. True course is 120°, the Variation is 5° East and the Deviation is 1° East. T: 120° V: −5° M: 115° D: −1° C: 114°

  4. Great-circle navigation - Wikipedia

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    Great-circle navigation or orthodromic navigation (related to orthodromic course; from Ancient Greek ορθός (orthós) 'right angle' and δρόμος (drómos) 'path') is the practice of navigating a vessel (a ship or aircraft) along a great circle.

  5. Rhumb line - Wikipedia

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    The expression "sailing on a rhumb" was used in the 16th–19th centuries to indicate a particular compass heading. [ 1 ] Early navigators in the time before the invention of the marine chronometer used rhumb line courses on long ocean passages, because the ship's latitude could be established accurately by sightings of the Sun or stars but ...

  6. Dead reckoning - Wikipedia

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    The navigator plots their 9 a.m. position, indicated by the triangle, and, using their course and speed, estimates their own position at 9:30 and 10 a.m. In navigation , dead reckoning is the process of calculating the current position of a moving object by using a previously determined position, or fix , and incorporating estimates of speed ...

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    "Sam Darnold picked the right time to have a career year." In case you missed it, I’m quoting what I wrote before the Minnesota Vikings got run, 27-9, by the Los Angeles Rams in Monday night’s ...

  9. Bearing (navigation) - Wikipedia

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    In nautical navigation the relative bearing of an object is the clockwise angle from the heading of the vessel to a straight line drawn from the observation station on the vessel to the object. The relative bearing is measured with a pelorus or other optical and electronic aids to navigation such as a periscope, sonar system, and radar systems ...